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VOLUME VII.
FLORA, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1918
NUMBER 5
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GENl CAMPBELL TOO BUSY   TO   MEET WILLIAMS BEFORE PEOPLE
As everybody expected James R. Campbell decllnlnes to meet Congress¬ man Williams liefore the people face to face. After making the charge that Congressman Williams voted against tive Important war me.isures he runs to cover wiien the congress¬ man challenges him to make good his charge in Joint debate. Wliy? A man who makes a charge in such positive terms and of such a serious •nature against an opponent should have the courage and the manliood to stand up before the people and de¬ fend the charges and submit his proof or make public retraction.
If Congressman Williams has vot¬ ed as a member of congress against tive or against one vital war measure since that fateful day, April 0, 1017, when America entered the world war, he has forfeited all claims for the support of loyal citizens, Repub¬ licans as well as Democrats
Votes in congress are all matters of record and General Campbell could ve^'y easily make his case be¬ fore the people, if he lias t»ld the truth. Wliy does he refuse to go to¬ fore the people and In the presence of Congressman Williams submit his proof and make good his charges
He refuses tiecause lie has wilfully misrepresented Mr. Williams and would be unmasked as a slanderer and falsifier if he undertook to make Ills case before the people in open debate.
Congressman Williams has stated over Ills signature in twenty news¬ papers of tlie district that he has not voted against a single war measure. He has stated the naked trutli and Is sustained tiy tlie records of congress. , Why does Campbell refuse to meet lilm before the people? Why does iie run like a rabbit when Williams reaches the district ?
The Register proposes to show wherein Campliell has lied since he lias taken to tall timber and pre¬ vents the congressman from exposing iilm In Joint debate.
The war so far as America was concerned began April 6, 1917. No one with brains enougli to make a tirst class idiot, would undertake to claim any war measures were before congress prior to the declanition of war—so C'ongressman Williams wouldn't have voted against any war measure before the United States entered the war.
I'he General in his circulars has named the measures and the dates on
wliich the votes of Mr. Williams were cast of which he complains. So there Gin be no misunderstanding. He has made his charges specltlc. What are theyV Get out the Campbell circular and see that the Register Is telling the truth. We give these measures as tliey are numbered in the circu¬ lars, with dates:
No. 1. The McLemore Resolution, March 7, 1916. This vote was cast lacking a single day Just thirteen months before Amerieaa entered the war. On this vote every Republican from Illinois, except one (Mr. Koss) voted as did Mr. Williams.
No. 3. Brandegee Amendment to Hay-Chamberlain Military Hill, April 18, 1916—This vote was cast lack¬ ing eleven days. Just one year before the declaration of war. Kor General Campbeli's benetit Ttie Register will say that on this matter 170 Demo¬ cratic members of congress voted as did Congressman Williams. Among the number being the following Dem- oiTats from Illinois: Foster, Ualney, Tavender and Sabbath. If the vote was wrong Mr. Williams was In a most distinguislied company. Only 2D Democrats voted opposite to Mr. Williams. Gen. Campbell may not understand the position he^juts him¬ self in when he challenged this vote. It is very apparent to the people who think.
No. 4. Section 5(5. Providing for a Volunteer Reserve Army, April 18, 1916, lacking eleven days of being a year before the declaration of war- On this matter 176 Democrats voted as did Mr. Williams, including the Democrat members from Illinois men¬ tioned above and only 19 Democrats voted the other way. If Mr. Williams voted wrong he was again In most distinguished company. Everybody In the district probably with the ex¬ ception of General Campbell knows that these last two votes of Mr. Wil¬ liams' sustained the recommenda¬ tions of President Wilson and were administration votes.
No. 6. The Cooper Amendment, March 1, 1917. This vote was cast a montii and flve days before the dec¬ laration of war.
Now, this disposes of four out of dve of the votes cited in the Camp¬ bell circular as being votes against war measures. They were all cast during Mr. Williams' first term in congress and before America entered the war. The Chicago Tribune never said these votes were on war meas¬ ures, neither did the Security League. No one ever said that at any tlrae or place, except Gen. James R. Campbell in his circulars, and tlie bunch of paid liars who are distribut¬ ing such circulars at so much per da.v.
No honest man In the Twenty Kourth Congressional District will assert or claim Mr. Williams' votes on these matters were votes on war measures. He may or may not have voted right on other matters In tlie light of such sequent events but by no stretch of the imagination can they be termed war measures, it takes a cliampton campaign liar to give them that status.
This leaves only one vote out of the five to lie considered.
No. 8. Kahn Amendment to (Con¬ scription Act, April 23, lOH-Tliis vote was the only one of the five cast after the declaration of war. It was a vote to leave In the draft bill a sec tion authorizing the President to call for five hundred thousand volunteers pending the tlmethedraft machinery could be pftt into operation—107 members,    48   Republicans    and   59
Democrats—voted as did Mr. Wil¬ liamson this proposition. Including such men as Mr. t^peaker Clark, Claude KItchn, Democratic leader. Geo. Shallenlicrger of Nebraska, and prai-tlcally every Democratic leailer in the House, Uncle Joe Cannon of Illinois and many others whose liy- alty and patriotism are unquestion' 1. Among the number were the only t " " Union soldiers now In Congre-iv— Mr. Hollingsworth of Ohio, Republi¬ can, and Geri. Sherwood of Ohln. Democrat, (ien. Slierwixnl was in twenty-six battles in the Civil War and is known througliout the land as the old soldiers' great friend in con¬ gress. Congressman Williams could not have been in very bad company wlien he was voting with these old heroes.
The Register also calls attention to tlie fact this vote was not against any measure as the Campbell circu¬ lars states, but on an amendment to the original draft bill. Mr. Williams supported this measure on its pass¬ age as did every Republican in Con gress except seven.
This Is the sum and substance of Mr. Williams' offenses. What justi¬ fication then for the flaming head¬ lines in the Campbell circular, "Wil¬ liams Votes Wrong on Klve War Measures!" It can easily be seen why Campbell Is too busy to face Williams before the people. His charges are false and misleading in every particular and he knows It.
One hundretl and nineteen war measures have been passed since April 0, 1917. Congressman Williams has not voted against a single one of them. He stated the truth—Camp¬ bell knows it and refuses to face the music but keeps on sending out his circulars by the thousands. It mav be he refuses to debate on the theory that-   .
"He who lies and runs away May live to He another day." —Harrlsburg Dally Register, Oct. 21.
Horatio CarroU Chaffin
VOTE   TO  SAVE   LIVES
YOUR vote FOR the levy of a small tax in this ^county for the care of our neighbors who have tuberculosis will cost you only a few cents. Many lives will be lost—/our neighbors aad pos¬ sibly friends—if this measure fails to carry in November.
BE A UFE SAVER —YOUR VOTE WILL MAKE YOU ONE
Horatio Carroll Chatlln was Ixirn at Klora, Illinois, June I5tli, 1901, and pa.vst'd from this lo a better life October I9tli, 1918. at the age of I" years, 4 months and 4 days.
Carroll moved with Ills purents to Rinard, 111., in liKri, where he grew to boyhood. In childhood, ^ well as through all his life, he always mani¬ fested a cheerful and sunny dis- pusllton, thereby gaining from his parents the name of "Our Sunny Hoy." At near the close or his flrsl .school year, ('arroll began to suffer from muscular hypertrofy, and during the next flve years the greatest effort possible was made to comtiat this In¬ curable disease. The best medical skill upon the American continent was em^iloyed, but to no avail. The ravages of the di.sease gradually weakened hlm until he was practically helpless. During all t^e time of his long confinement he did not complain, and at all times he was patient and cheerful. Though robtied of the pleasures of Ixiyhood, he fxire his de¬ privation wltli heroic fortitude, and wltli a sunny smile he always greeted hts friends, and by a life of patient endurance endeared himself to all who knew hlm. At the age of twelve years he professed faith in .lesus Christ and united with the Metlmdisl church of Klora, to which church he lielonged until he died Hewas, when possible, a regular attendant at Sun¬ day school and preaching services, and enjoyed the study of the Sunday school literature and the Hible.
Possessed of a bright mind, lie spent his time reading current lit